1987 AD
At the end of November, at the archaeological site of an ancient city in southern Israel, a team of scientists discovered an ancient engraved tablet dating from the Bronze Age. This surprisingly well-preserved marble block in Aramaic tells the story of a previously unknown building, the "Zohar's Shrine". According to the scriptures, this monument of gigantic dimensions (about 50 meters high) contained within it the tomb of King Zohar. We have little information about this king, except that he is described as the "Great Divine Creator and Destroyer". The temple was made of a "divine" stone and was protected by ten statues representing "protective" goddesses of more than 20m high, which support a gigantic sphere of 47 m in diameter. And finally, he told us that following a fire which weakened the structure, the ancients decided to bury entirely the temple in order to preserve it under ground. We still don't know if such a monument existed, nor where it is, archaeologists all agree that it was only a new mythological story from the imagination of our ancestors, unless ...
An ode to Jean-Jacques Lequeu.
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Zohar's Shrine
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Zohar's Shrine

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